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Re: 5HT Receptors

Posted by Brainbeard on January 2, 2010, at 15:12:53

In reply to Re: 5HT Receptors, posted by mtdewcmu on January 2, 2010, at 10:55:44

> > * fluvoxamine/Luvox: stronger affinity for 5HT3-receptor, which means more initial nausea but more eventual anti-anxiety and anti-OCD (at least in theory..); most sedating of the SSRIs.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean that Luvox directly interacts with the 5-HT3 receptor? Or that somehow it interacts more strongly with the 5-HT transporter at synapses with 5-HT3 receptors?
>

I'm not sure either; I think the latter.

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